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China To Close 2,000 Factories In Energy Crackdown
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a list of 2,087 steel mills, cement works and other energy-intensive factories required to close by September 30 after discussions with provincial and municipal officials to identify industrial operations with outdated, inefficient technology. The goal of the factory closings is 'to enhance the structure of production, heighten the standard of technical capability and international competitiveness and realize a transformation of industry from being big to being strong,' the ministry says. The current Chinese five-year plan calls for using 20 percent less energy this year for each unit of economic output than in 2005 but surging production by heavy industry since last winter has put in question China's ability to meet this target. In addition to the energy-efficiency objective in the current five-year plan, a plan announced by President Hu Jintao late last year called for China to reduce its carbon emissions per unit of economic output by 40 to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels."
We do not seem to have any vision when it comes to things like alternative energy, reducing our energy consumption, and industrial efficiency.
Yeah. We also don't seem to even have much heavy industry. That's where all the Once-American-Now-Multi-National-Corporations took the jobs to. So why worry about something that doesn't pertain to us?
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
Complete hate for what America stands for? A desire to see America and Americans ground into the dust of absolute poverty? I imagine it depends on how sadistic the Chinese really are.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
In the United States, California has lead the effort in energy efficiency. Their economy doesn't look gutted to me.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.